Rail & Road

OWNER: Renfrewshire Council ENGINEER:  AMEY GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  Farrans Construction MAIN FIGURES:  c.390 CMCs, c.680 BMCs and c.200 VSCS Project Details To connect Paisley with the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) and Glasgow Airport, a new £60m road and pedestrian bridge has been constructed over the White Cart [...]

OWNER: Highways England ENGINEER:  Arup/Mott MacDonald GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  Galliford Try MAIN FIGURES:  c.9,350 CMC & 11,300 PVDs Project Details Menard was asked by Galliford Try, working on behalf of Highways England, to provide a robust ground improvement solution as an alternative to piling, to support the embankments of [...]

OWNER: Bolton Council ENGINEER:  E3P + Curtins GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  D Morgan PLC MAIN FIGURES:  806 Dynamic Replacement Pillars, 1,615 Controlled Modulus Columns, 146 Vertical Drains Project Details The proposed scheme for Bolton Council involved construction of a new, 1km long link road intended to open up to new [...]

Project Details Part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is built on Controlled Modulus Columns. Menard suggested this technique to improve the soil along the Thames River in the suburbs of London so that the Eurostar could operate as intended. For this project, Menard used a short mast for the installation of the column [...]

OWNER: Trenport ENGINEER:  WSP GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  BAM Nuttall MAIN FIGURES:  1,044 Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC) to depths of 11.5-14.5 metres 18,511 Vertical Drains installed to an average depth of 7.3 metres Project Details The works consisted of the construction of a new access road and bridge across the [...]

OWNER: SITA ENGINEER:  Earth Science Partnership GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  Balfour Beatty Rail MAIN FIGURES:  1,678 Vertical Drains installed to depths between 7-11 metres Project Details As part of the construction of the Severn Energy Recovery Centre (SERC) for SITA, the existing rail network required upgrading. The existing rail link [...]

OWNER: Transport Scotland ENGINEER:  Grontmij GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  Morrison Construction, Hochtief, Dragados and American Bridge (Joint Venture) MAIN FIGURES:  4,451 Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC) to depths between 11-18m, totalling 52,675 linear metres 62 soil mixing shear walls, representing a surface of 9,200m2 44 Stress Load Tests on single CMCs [...]

OWNER: Crossrail ENGINEER:  Ove Arup & Partners GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  VINCI Construction UK MAIN FIGURES:  3,426 Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC) in 230-360mm diameter to depths between 5-10m 16 SFA micro piles in 450mm diameter to depths of 9.6m 519 CFA piles in 600mm diameter to depths between 6.5-11.5m Project [...]

OWNER: East Sussex County Council ENGINEER:  Mott MacDonald GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  Hochtief and Taylor Woodrow (Joint Venture) MAIN FIGURES:  13,000 Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC), 360-400mm diameter to depths of 4-16m 4,200 Vertical Drains to depths of 10m Project Details The project of Bexhill to Hastings link road consists of [...]

OWNER: Blackpool Borough Council ENGINEER:  Coffey Geotechnical Limited GENERAL CONTRACTOR:  Galliford Try MAIN FIGURES:  1,500 Controlled Modulus Columns to depths of up to 15m Project Details The main arterial road into Blackpool uses a 30 year old railway embankment which was constructed on soft alluvial soils. The embankment [...]